# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/499 of 17 March 2017 on setting up the e-Science and Technology European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research — European Research Infrastructure Consortium (LifeWatch ERIC) (notified under document C(2017) 1648) (Only the Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian Slovenian and Spanish texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance), Article 12: Employment Policies

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. LifeWatch ERIC shall not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or because of marital or parental status. This policy shall extend to all rights, privileges and activities of staff. LifeWatch ERIC may engage in policies of affirmative action concerning female staff for which purpose the General Assembly shall approve an affirmative action plan before any staff contract is announced.
2. The CEO shall have management authority over the staff and shall be responsible for the conditions of employment and for each position announced for recruitment, subject to budgetary limits approved by the General Assembly, Implementing Rules, Guidelines and policy decisions taken by the General Assembly. The CEO, unless otherwise stated, may delegate specific functions to one or more members of the Executive Board.
3. LifeWatch ERIC's recruiting, interviewing, hiring and promotion/demotion activities shall be carried out in a manner consistent with the principles of paragraph 1 and shall abide by the principles and restrictions on employment set out in Implementing Rules, Guidelines or general mandates or policies approved by the General Assembly.
4. The employment policies set out in the Implementing Rules shall be based on the principles and conditions approved by the General Assembly and be subject to applicable laws and regulations of the Host Member State or the laws of the country where the activities of LifeWatch ERIC are conducted.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/499/annex/article/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-499/annex/article-12
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